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Zarif explained that the agreement has a framework to respond to each issue, which was present in the negotiations and states in the chapters of the pact. But while the previous US administration showed flexibility in its pursuit of a nuclear understanding with Iran, the Trump presidency is unlikely to follow suit as it looks for possible reasons to abrogate the pact.

Sanders said the president has not settled on specific charities and wants to solicit advice from the media. Earlier this week, his 2020 political committee blasted out emails and texts to more than 10 million supporters encouraging people to donate to Harvey efforts.

The group was greeted on the ground by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his wife, Cecilia. Introduced by the Governor as a "friend of the State of Texas", Vice President Mike Pence spoke before a large group of people outside First Baptist Church in Rockport Thursday as he visited the Coastal Bend aftermath of Hurricane Harvey .

Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said Thursday that he received a resignation letter from Clarke. Sheriff David Clarke had resigned as Milwaukee County sheriff on Thursday afternoon. As a sheriff, Clarke has allowed some pretty horrific abuses to happen under his watch, including deaths at the jail he's supposed to manage. Clarke, for his part, doesn't seem to take his role as a jail supervisor too seriously.

There are now 13 FEMA urban search and rescue (USAR) teams deployed to Texas; five Type I teams and eight Type III teams. "We don't want to be an impact on an area that's already impacted", he said, "so we go down and we set up our shop, and we take care of what we get tasked to take care of without putting any footprint on what's already there".

The cut would pay for about half of Mr Trump's proposed wall on the USA border with Mexico . While Donald Trump has promised victims of tropical storm Harvey all the funding they need, other Republicans have suggested cutting nearly $1bn from federal disaster relief to pay for the President's border wall .